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I don’t think you truly captured the worst part:

There comes a realization, to many engineer’s horror, that AI won’t be able to save them and they will have to manually comprehend and possibly write a ton of code by hand to fix major issues, all while upper management is breathing down their back furious as to why the product has become a piece of shit and customers are leaving to competitors.

The engineers who sink further into denial thrash around with AI, hoping they are a few prompts or orchestrations away from everything be fixed again.

But the solution doesn’t come. They realize there is nothing they can do. It’s over.



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